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NEW YORK’S POLICE commissioner Bill Bratton has said it was “very inappropriate” for officers outside the funeral of Rafael Ramos, who was shot dead earlier this month, to turn their backs in protest as the mayor spoke.
“That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos, and to bring politics, to bring issues into that event, I think was very inappropriate, and I do not support it,” Bratton told CBS talk show “Face the Nation.”
“He is the mayor of New York. He was there representing the citizens of New York to express their remorse and their regret at that death,” he added.
At the same time, it is reflective, unfortunately, of the feelings of some of our officers.
Protests sparked by police killings of unarmed black men have drawn race relations and policing into the national spotlight, with some accusing police of using excessive force against blacks.
But the protests have also sparked anger from some police officers. They say some officials have been too sympathetic and accuse them of inciting violence against law enforcement officers.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke publicly about the counsel he gave to his biracial son to take extra care when dealing with police.
Some police representatives went as far as connecting the statement to the recent double murder of Ramos and his partner.
In a separate interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Bratton said the mistrust of police officers by minorities needed to be addressed.
“There’s no denying that among the black community there are those concerns,” Bratton said.
“It has to be part of the dialogue,” the commissioner said, adding that it wasn’t simply a race issue.
The debate is also about poverty, class said de Blasio should apologize for his comments.
“He created an impression with the police that he was on the side of the protesters,” said the former mayor, who argued that some of the demonstrators took their rhetoric too far.
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The ‘who killed your granny’ budget
@John F doe: The “fix Britain after 14 years of the Tories” budget
@Anthony Curran: by killing off the elderly? I know you shinners have a low value on life but this is disgraceful
@John F doe:
A quick Google search will show you just what the tories thought of the elderly…Savage cuts to resources for vulnerable people..
@John F doe: if SF get in this is exactly what will be facing us if not worse.
I wonder will Ireland be loaning money to the U.K.? As the loaned money to us when we were in a very dire state but we still are unfortunately.
@Tommy: we should absolutely help our wonderful nearest and dearest if needs be, they did it for us
@John F doe: dearest?
@Tommy: Economics clearly isn’t your strong suit.
@John F doe: In fairness they provided jobs for the Irish for decades, and still do, not that we need them as much these days.
@Tommy: let’s go Tommy Robinson
@John F doe: And maybe charge them an outlandish rate of interest like they did to us !!
Mad how the Torys can do whatever they like, recklessly destroy the economy BUT Labour oOOoooo ‘pure evil’… politics is truly pathetic
@Thesaltyurchin: the conservatives never launched an attack on the elderly
@John F doe: You’re absolutely dense.
@John F doe: Are you thick?. What age group do you think uses an underfunded NHS more than any other ?
@Ian: I agree
@John F doe: neither have Labour so what on earth are you talking about?
so she can take the blame when it will backfire
For all those ppl in ireland u say “the government can’t get any worse” of course it can get worse
The Budgies won’t be impressed with a tax hike.
Labour a bit like our own, pretend to be sympathetic and be the voice for the working class, yet when in power, o difficult decisions will have it be made. A conservative landslide is likely when they eventually put in a motion of no confidence against this travesty. Stammer the worst Labour PM since Ramsay MacDonald
@Alan: the Tories ran the country in to the ground for over a decade. That Labour would actually try and fix that by taxing the people that can afford it isn’t the “travesty” you think it is. The Tories are trying to paint this budget as crippling the working class but that’s, once again, is an utter lie.
Yep, how do you tax all the profits from State assets sold for a pittance to cronies and then offshored and shielded from view forever?
The once Great Britain is now little Britain a byproduct off Brexit.
What is this talk of Labour having promised not to raise taxes? Let’s be clear what they promised was not to raid Texas, and so far they have honoured that!
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